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CLUES ACROSS

1. Employ

4. Not a starter

7. Matchstick game

8. One who receives a gift

10. One shows highlights

12. Open sore

13. Within

14. __ Caesar, comedian

16. Investment account

17. A negatively charged ion

19. Immoral act

20. Cheek

21. Lacking in vigor or vitality

25. Partner to flow

26. Ink

27. “Mad Men” actor

29. A taunt

30. Single

31. A very large body of water

32. A configuration of stars as seenfrom the earth

39. Herringlike fish

41. No (Scottish)

42. White-breasted N. American auk

43. American time

44. Adult female

45. Singer Horne

46. Pronouncements

48. From a distance

49. Indian term of respect

50. One from Utah

51. Never sleeps

52. Type of bulb

CLUES DOWN

1. Hard to believe

2. Used as a pigment in painting

3. Induces vomiting

4. Fifth note of a major scale

5. Written in a majuscule script

6. Brews

8. Misfire

9. Amounts of time

11. The act of perceiving somethingvisually

14. Female sibling

15. First

18. Sodium

19. Brother or sister

20. Satisfy

22. The lands of an estate

23. Antiballistic missile

24. Taxi

27. Covers the engine

28. Commentator Coulter

29. Mousse

31. Witness

32. Unlikely to be forgotten

33. Bar bill

34. Morning

35. City south of Moscow

36. Highly incensed

37. Intricately decorated

38. Drew closer to

39. Beers

40. Central China city

44. Touch lightly

47. Habitual twitching

Sudoku solution (next page)

Crossword

Second week of March

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SudokuSecond week of MarchFun By The Numbers

Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. Thismind-bending puzzle will have you hookedfrom the moment you square off, so sharpenyour pencil and put your sudoku savvy to thetest!

Here’s How It Works:

Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid,broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve asudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill eachrow, column and box. Each number can appearonly once in each row, column and box. Youcan figure out the order in which the numberswill appear by using the numeric clues alreadyprovided in the boxes. The more numbers youname, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

Crossword solution(previous page)